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CVE-2017-17523

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-12-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-74

Description

lilypond-invoke-editor in LilyPond 2.19.80 does not validate strings before launching the program specified by the BROWSER environment variable, which allows remote attackers to conduct argument-injection attacks via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by a --proxy-pac-file argument.

Affected products

• Lilypond: 2.19.80

References

• https://bugs.debian.org/881767
• https://bugs.debian.org/884136
• https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5243/
• https://bugs.debian.org/881767
• https://bugs.debian.org/884136
• https://sourceforge.net/p/testlilyissues/issues/5243/

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